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Cultural Studies
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Anissa Wardi Ph.D.

Academic Areas of Interest

20th Century African American Literature, Toni Morrison, Ecocriticism

Biography

Anissa Wardi has been a faculty member at Chatham University since 1996. As a member of the English Department, Dr. Wardi has taught courses including The Harlem Renaissance, Toni Morrison Seminar and August Wilson and Pittsburgh. The author of two books, Dr. Wardi has published widely in the area of 20th century African American literature.

Education

Ph.D., Syracuse University (Syracuse, NY), 1999

M.A., Duquesne University (Pittsburgh, PA), 1993

B.A., Penn State Erie (Erie, PA), 1991

Publications

Water and African American Memory: An Ecocritical Perspective, Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2011

"The Cartography of Memory: An Ecocritical Reading of Ntozake Shange's Sassafrass, Cypress and Indigo" (forthcoming, African American Review).

"Currents of Memory: Ancestral Waters in Henry Dumas's 'Ark of Bones' and August Wilson's Gem of the Ocean," (forthcoming, ISLE),

Awards

Organizations

The Toni Morrison Society, Modern Language Association (MLA)

Achievements

Director, Cultural Studies and African American Studies

Presentations

"'Loud with the presence of plants and field life': The Ecology of Resistance in Toni Morrison's Tar Baby." American Literature Association Symposium on American Fiction 1890 to the Present. (Savannah, Georgia) October 2009.